The Thread about Nothing....

steve said:

[censored] there was a lot of psycho muthas on the road this afternoon, hot weather must bring 'em out.Â

Why weren't you at Kew? You could have been chin-wagging with me and Llama. You can't avoid us forever you know. And how come the forum takes forever* to open the edit screen when you reply for the first time after logging on? * forever = anything over a nano-second

Quoted post said:

Originally Posted by bbp
So have you done this at work yet Matagi?
http://sploid.gizmodo.com/watch-a-lung-incredibly-expand-with-air-like-a-balloon-1465562961
Literally inflating a pair of lungs by blowing through a straw.

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Quoted post said:

Originally Posted by paulambry

Why weren't you at Kew? You could have been chin-wagging with me and Llama. You can't avoid us forever you know.

And how come the forum takes forever* to open the edit screen when you reply for the first time after logging on?

* forever = anything over a nano-second

Yeah gotta start doing those crits.

No idea about the slowness, does it only happen with the edit screen?

steve said:

paulambry said:

Why weren't you at Kew? You could have been chin-wagging with me and Llama. You can't avoid us forever you know. And how come the forum takes forever* to open the edit screen when you reply for the first time after logging on? * forever = anything over a nano-second

Yeah gotta start doing those crits.  No idea about the slowness, does it only happen with the edit screen?Â

Yep. :big-smile: And yep - just the first time you reply and then it's okay. Everything else zings along.

There's a giant flying saucer hovering over NW NSW :-)

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Mundene fight. Live. Please TKO him the other guy. Love Australia.

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Crikey! What a finish, hmmf!
thanks, anyways :---)

Here's a "Where Are They Now" article about Matt Bazzano. Not bad

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There are a few more 'where are they nows' here:
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Quoted post said:

Originally Posted by 531Aussie
There's a giant flying saucer hovering over NW NSW :-)

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ooops;;; north east .. and it's still there

531Aussie said:

ooops;;; north east .. and it's still there

Is that where the Parkes Radio Telescope is?

Yeah, not far off. but it looks like the spaceship has gone

Jee, Southern Masters aren't too shy about cancelling races many hours before kickoff. My dodgy guess is that a lot of retired and semi-retired guys travel a reasonable distance to get there, coz they're obviously got the whole arvo off to drive out there, so I suppose they wanna save them making the trip for nothing.

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HA. I will be forever grateful for footballers mucking up for my enjoyment (except when they try to jump from a hotel window to a tree -- or vice versa -- and die):

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Originally Posted by gplama
Five years ago the people against Masters starting at 30 all said 35+. Today the same people are saying 40+ should be the starting point.

Is this really such an issue for the handful of races we do that aren't club/all-in/whatever races?

I gather you're talking about the Tour of Bright, and the chat on Cycling Tips.

You might remember that I had a whinge when the masters age was dropped to 30, coz I wrongly assumed that the pelobunches at Sandown would get fully-massive, vre.
That obviously didn't happen, for some reason.

I've got a theory that many decent 30-to-35-year-old riders don't race masters regularly because their mates give them grief for not winning all the time.

Like:
Friend of masters rider: "so, Mr 32-yr-old Gun Rider, you race masters, right?
Gun 32-year-old: "yeah, sometimes."
Friend: "You must win all the time, right?"
Gun 32-yr-old: "well, no, not really, but I get some results"
Friend: "I don't get it. Why don't you win every week? Aren't most of those guys old, like, 35, or well over?"
Gun 32-yr-old: "Yeah, probably. I'm not really sure."
Friend: "I still don't get it. You regularly get results at Glenvale, or at least top-tens, and you're always in the breaks, coz you're a really strong rider, so why don't you smash the old guys?"
Gun 32-yr-old: "Well, it's not that simple. It's harder than you think. There are some good riders there."
Friend: "But they're so old. I still don't get why you don't win every week."
Gun 32-yr-old: "well, I dunno what else I can tell ya."

So, Mr 32-year-old stops racing masters. Ha.

531Aussie said:

Yeah, not far off. but it looks like the spaceship has goneÂ

My guess is that the Parkes dish was stowed pointing up (they do that when it gets windy and perhaps other times)--or was pointed up, scanning the sky looking for transient interstellar events while the Earth rotated--the weather conditions were just right, and what you saw was scatter seen by weather radar. Weather radar usually uses S-band EM frequencies, and the Parkes dish is opaque and thus a reflector at those frequencies. S-band is good from short distance to long range distances, so no matter how far away the weather stations, an image like this is what you would see once all the stations' radar returns had been stitched together in a single image. Besides, everyone who's not an idiot knows that aliens use cloaking technology so that their ships can't be seen with radar or laser beams.

Hey! You're too smart for this joint. We also sometimes get central 'white blips' on local radars on 40-degree days when there's no clouds in the sky, alone any moisture.

Yeah, the aliens cloak, but can they control the surrounding clouds? Hmmmmmm

531Aussie said:

gplama said:

  Five years ago the people against Masters starting at 30 all said 35+. Today the same people are saying 40+ should be the starting point. Is this really such an issue for the handful of races we do that aren't club/all-in/whatever races?

I gather you're talking about the Tour of Bright, and the chat on Cycling Tips.  You might remember that I had a whinge when the masters age was dropped to 30, coz I wrongly assumed that the pelobunches at Sandown would get fully-massive, vre.  That obviously didn't happen, for some reason.   I've got a theory that many decent 30-to-35-year-old riders don't race masters regularly because their mates give them grief for not winning all the time.   Like: Friend of masters rider: "so, Mr 32-yr-old Gun Rider, you race masters, right?  Gun 32-year-old: "yeah, sometimes."  Friend: "You must win all the time, right?" Gun 32-yr-old: "well, no, not really, but I get some results" Friend: "I don't get it. Why don't you win every week? Aren't most of those guys old, like, 35, or well over?"  Gun 32-yr-old: "Yeah, probably.  I'm not really sure." Friend: "I still don't get it.  You regularly get results at Glenvale, or at least top-tens, and you're always in the breaks, coz you're a really strong rider, so why don't you smash the old guys?"  Gun 32-yr-old: "Well, it's not that simple. It's harder than you think. There are some good riders there." Friend: "But they're so old. I still don't get why you don't win every week." Gun 32-yr-old: "well, I dunno what else I can tell ya." So, Mr 32-year-old stops racing masters.   Ha.  Â

ha ha nice one nev you should be a script-writer

Have you got some shows coming up? If you want me to scribble something together for you, just ask. Ha
:-)

I agree with PA Ozman, excellent scripting. And good luck to lama for ToB this weekend.